clubbish, a.
(ˈklʌbɪʃ)
[f. club n. + -ish1.]
1. Resembling, or suggesting, a club; clumsy.
| 1515 Barclay Egloges iii. (1570) B vj/4 His clubbishe feete. 1565–84 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cala, A big clubbishe staffe. 1825–79 Jamieson, Clubbish, clumsy, heavy. |
2. Clownish, boorish, rough, rude. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1530 Palsgr. 307/2 Clobysshe boystous onweldy, lourt. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 69 Clubbish hands of crabbed Clowns. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 143 A mean man, and of a clubbish nature. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen., Clubbish, incomis, rudis. 1880 W. Cornw. Gloss., Clubbish, rough and brutal. |
3. Disposed or addicted to clubs.
| 1848 Tait's Mag. XV. 328 They were quiet stay-at-home men..none of them clubbish. 1868 M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile xxvi. 293 Wilmot—that young clubbish man. |
Hence † clubbishly adv., rudely, clownishly.
| 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 699 One Ihon Skudder answered hym clubbishly. |